Can They Hand-le The Truth?

For the time being, the Detroit Red Wings might want to avoid doing the hokey pokey or the hand jive.

For the second consecutive game, the Wings lost a key player to an apparent broken hand. Defenseman Danny DeKeyser left Tuesday’s 6-5 shootout loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning after taking a Steven Stamkos shot off the left hand.

“That’s a big loss for us,” Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. “He logs a lot of minutes, plays a lot of defensive situations, plays against the other teams’ top lines every night. It’s a big loss for us for sure.”

The Wings confirmed that they expect DeKeyser to be out 4-6 weeks, they were guarded about releasing any information beyond that morsel.